*Katy Perry only got popular off of a gimmick i.e. "I Kissed a Girl" - this and "Hot N Cold" may be catchy songs, but they do not good music make, plus they get really annoying when they get stuck in your head

This album sees Katy at a more pop-rock stance than she is known for post-2010. The album was just packed with potential hit singles, only a few of which ended up seeing the light of day (why did they wait until single #5 to release 'Waking Up In Vegas'?!). The entire album was either solely written or co-written by Perry herself.

Let's start with the singles, 'I Kissed a Girl', 'Hot 'N' Cold' and 'Waking Up In Vegas' - all fantastically catchy up-tempo tracks which became the hits they deserved to be. Furthermore, the limited Australian release of 'One of the Boys' was deserving and the perhaps retrospective mistake of releasing fan-favourite 'Thinking of You' was worth it just for the beautifully shot video.

As for the album tracks, the up-tempos are the real winners here, 'If You Can Afford Me', 'Self Inflicted' and 'Fingerprints' were all potential singles - the latter of which is lyrically one of my favourite pop songs of recent time. I would go as far as to say there is only one track on the album that I don't love and that is 'Mannequin', but even that is enjoyable enough to leave my rating for here at a brilliant 6/6.Last edited: 20.04.2012 14:31